Communion on the hand dilemma

[stpurl]

No SHE meant Jill wearing a head covering as a personal devotion. I’ll see if I can edit.

Wait, as I see in the thread I did specifically say Jill ‘covered” as a devotion to God’s glory.

NOT anything about receiving the Eucharist .

Although that can tie back to where I stated earlier that if a person had a devotion to receiving COTT and choose to receive that way because he or she felt a calling (as with the woman and the head covering) that this was not about ‘her’ (or ‘his’) wanting to ‘choose his way’ and that not receiving at Mass is not sinful.

 

[RolandThompsonGunner]

No SHE meant Jill wearing a head covering as a personal devotion.

Oops, my bad. Sorry.

 

[stpurl]

I did mean that but I had also spoken earlier that choosing to receive COTT could also be a personal devotion and that not receiving at any given Mass is not a rejection of ‘receiving God in the hand” any more than wearing a head covering for a woman should be seen as a rejection of women who don’t wear a covering.

And by personal devotion of the means of communion reception I also absolutely do not mean that reception of communion itself is a ‘personal devotion’.

Some are called to receive COTT and even kneeling. That is the personally devout way they feel called to show reverence to God, but it doesn’t mean that people who receive standing and on the hand are not devout, or ‘as devout’. It means that their devotion is a different one. Not greater or lesser, but different.

 

[stpurl]

So you may have been called for one parish but not another. It doesn’t mean you were ‘wrong’ the first time and now are ‘right’; it also doesn’t mean you were ‘right’ the first time and are doing ‘wrong’ now.

But trying to make it seem as if it was ‘all on you’ and implying that others are ‘all about them’. . . That’s a little problematic if you truly intended to convey that. It sounds to me more as though you felt an urge the first time which you sought to ‘validate’ and found a confirmation with “Cardinal Sarah’ and that the second time, you found a confirmation and validation to change due to the parish priest.

What I’m saying is that a person can (and does) feel a call from the Lord without needing to say, “I’m doing this because Cardinal Sarah thinks it’s important” or “I’m stopping this because my priest says it’s not the norm”. . .

And that one obeys the call listening to the Lord above all.

And I’m not saying you didn’t, honest. But I am saying that it is possible and indeed likely that none of this is YOU choosing to follow this or that priest’s suggestions, any more than Jill with the head covering is listening to TradsRus and just doing something for her own glorification and need to be special and standing out.